Agile Zombie

Inside the floor-to-ceiling window, Liu Yue'er gently stroked her skin.

"My God, how is it so delicate and smooth!"

As if unable to believe it, she felt all over her ankles, lower abdomen, ample breasts, little hands, and entire body.

Lowering her hands, Liu Yue'er lay down and murmured emptily to herself, "With such a perfect body, why is there no one to share it with?"

Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, Shen Jin stood frozen, the dirt model in his hands dropping to the ground.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What the hell just happened?

Shen Jin wiped his nosebleed and hurriedly slipped back into the tunnel before the woman noticed him.

"I'd read plenty of history books and military manuals, but at that moment, I still got carried away."

Shen Jin had truly felt the urge to open that floor-to-ceiling window.

His mind was torn in battle, as though two tiny figures, one black and one white, were talking.

The black little figure said, "Twenty-five years old and still a virgin. Aren't you ashamed? This is just an ordinary apartment, and inside is a lonely woman. In the apocalypse, everyone takes what they need. Look at that figure!

Tsk, tsk~ She's hotter than the Japanese and Korean stars you usually watch. This is a gift from heaven!

Don't hesitate! Thinking means throwing it away; hesitation means defeat!

Even if she's only stunning from behind, aren't there curtains?

The setting is safe, the mood is right. If you don't go for it, you're not a man!"

The white little figure said, "You're right!"

The black little figure said, "."

But Shen Jin ultimately decided to hold back, because at the critical moment, he remembered.

"Article Two of the Apocalypse Rulebook: Do not be curious. Stay away from unknown things."

Who knew whether this was a trap set by some Gathering Place?

With such transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, what if it was meant to lure in other lone survivors?

How much of a moral bottom line could people retain after being removed from normal society? There was no need to discuss it.

Just think of Marina Abramović's famous performance art experiment.

Human nature could not withstand testing!

Shen Jin never pinned his future on someone else suddenly discovering their conscience.

"If I went in, I'd definitely find out how high immortals can jump!"

Muttering to himself, Shen Jin returned to the tunnel and sealed the exit with several blocks of dirt.

Back on the main passage ten meters underground, Shen Jin picked an angle by instinct and prepared to dig forward.

After digging several meters, Shen Jin wrestled with himself for a long while before seeming unwillingly to return to the place where he could go up.

He tossed out a "workbench," fiddled around for a bit, and erected a sign in the middle of the passage leading upward.

"Kind Auntie"

After leaving the mark, Shen Jin contentedly took up his pickaxe and Iron Shovel and continued digging forward.

What a seasoned camper.

Once again, he repeated the 'Qilin Arm Rapid Throwing Midair Vision-Scouting Method.'

"Obtained: Tile ×1"

There was no one above. This time, Shen Jin directly entered the room.

A low growl sounded just a short distance from Shen Jin's opening.

"Urgh~ urgh, awoo!"

A zombie dressed in tattered clothes, saliva and bloody fluid dripping from its mouth, pounced at him.

The long-starved zombie's throat let out a bloodcurdling roar of hunger for flesh and blood!

Shen Jin: ∑(っ°Д°;)っ

Helmet retract!

His right hand swiftly threw out a block of dirt, sealing the opening.

Huff, huff~

Only after taking several deep breaths did Shen Jin recover.

He had seen quite a few zombies, but this was the first time he had nearly been caught by one at such close range.

"No, it looks like this 'Qilin Arm Rapid Throwing Midair Vision-Scouting Method' is still flawed. The field of view is too narrow."

"Good thing the hand speed I rely on most didn't fail me."

This time, the Qilin Arm had done its job!

Good thing he had not gone into that young lady's room just now. What if he lost this hand speed in the future?

The more Shen Jin thought about it, the more resolute he became. He felt he had been incredibly wise!

"A gentle woman's embrace is a hero's grave. The ancestors truly did not deceive me."

Even through the dirt, Shen Jin could hear the zombie's hoarse howls above.

Smack!

He threw another block of dirt up.

Shen Jin feared that one layer of dirt would not block the "human smell" on him. If the zombie started digging after the scent, that would be troublesome.

"Based on my many experiments, two meters of dirt can basically block both sound and smell."

Shen Jin began digging beneath the spot where he had just poked his head out.

Using the Iron Shovel to dig dirt was incredibly fast. It only took four or five strikes to dig out an entire block.

After some rapid work.

The area beneath that exit had become a two-meter-by-two-meter pit, fifteen meters deep.

The bottom was no longer dirt, but a mixture of various hard rocks.

Even if one did not die from the fall, one would be crippled for life.

Shen Jin stood to one side, holding an Iron Shovel in one hand and a stone model in the other.

As the shovel smashed open the ground, his Qilin Arm in his right hand swung rapidly.

The throwing motion he had practiced tens of thousands of times was flawless.

The instant the zombie above was suspended in midair, he sealed every opening before him, ensuring that the zombie could only fall into the pit and could not touch him in the slightest!

What if the zombie flailed about as it came down and scratched him?

Of course, that was probably impossible. After all, he wore three layers of cowhide underwear and iron armor, making him extremely resistant to scratches.

Smack!

Smack, smack, smack!

The zombies in the room above fell into the pit Shen Jin had prepared like dumplings tossed into a pot, tumbling down in a rush after catching the scent of a human.

"Roar, roar!!"

A large number of zombies let out heart-rending roars underground.

Even hiding behind the stone blocks, Shen Jin could hear their wails.

"Falling from that high up, even zombies should break their arms and legs, right?"

Sure enough, the dozen or so zombies in the pit were twisted together in a heap, their limbs deformed to varying degrees.

Some zombies even had their heads bent sideways, yet they still howled upward.

The scent of flesh and blood drove them mad on an instinctive level.

After waiting ten minutes and hearing no movement above, Shen Jin smashed open the stone blocks in front of him with his pickaxe.

Looking at the mangled zombies below, Shen Jin observed them carefully.

"Their flesh is gradually withering. It should be due to insufficient nutrition. Zombies trapped indoors have nothing to eat.

"There's green growth covering their heads and bodies. Moss? Or some kind of parasitic fungus?

"But they're still highly active, with no signs of declining vitality.

"It seems Professor Liu's 'Starve the Zombies' theory, proposed by that veteran amateur scientist on last month's broadcast, isn't very useful."

When Shen Jin had first heard Professor Liu's theory, he had been completely amazed!

Professor Liu had said that as long as everyone hid and avoided being found by zombies, the zombies would eventually starve to death from lack of food, while the remaining humans would gain "herd immunity to the zombie virus."

In other words, everyone could survive this world-ending zombie virus crisis without doing anything at all!

Shen Jin had once believed it, but now, seeing how lively these zombies were, there was not the slightest sign that they were about to starve to death.

Damn it, he had gotten excited for nothing!

"Clearly, zombies have evolved some way to obtain energy."

"Huh? What is that zombie planning to do?"

As Shen Jin observed the zombies huddled together in the pit below, one of them—a gaunt zombie with the body of a monkey—leaped up, jumping more than three meters high!

Then it borrowed force from the wall, springing back and forth repeatedly!

Unlike the clumsy zombies, it was incredibly agile. The soles of its feet were dark green, though he had no idea what that was!

Danger!

At the critical moment, four stone models appeared in Shen Jin's right hand and shot out at high speed, instantly forming a stone wall that separated him from the zombie once more!

Bang!

The Agile Zombie could never have imagined that four stones would suddenly appear above its head!

Its explosive speed was incredibly fast, so naturally its kinetic energy was immense!

That collision directly shattered its skull, splattering yellow and white matter all over the wall.

After a moment, he heard no unusual movement.

Shen Jin smashed open the stones. A thick stench of decay rushed out, followed by the sight of the yellow-white substance on the wall.

"Bleurgh~"

He dry-heaved twice, but Shen Jin held firm and did not vomit outright.

Otherwise, if he threw up inside his helmet, he would probably disgust himself into vomiting again.

"Cough, cough. You get used to it after vomiting enough."

After analyzing it briefly, Shen Jin figured out where the yellow-white matter covering the wall had come from.

"It seems the Evolved Zombies mentioned on the broadcast have started appearing. That one just now should have enhanced speed.

"But clearly, its defense was not enhanced. Its own speed got it killed easily."

Shaking his head, Shen Jin did not rejoice over the zombie's deformity.

Because natural selection favored the fittest.

The Agility Zombie might evolve again. By then, a tough body combined with that terrifying speed would be every Gathering Place's nightmare!

Out of habit, he glanced at the system interface. The Newbie Quest was still at 0/10.

"Sure enough, this doesn't count as killing one with my own strength? Am I going to be stuck on the Newbie Quest forever???"

"Sigh, it's getting more dangerous outside. Better to stay home."

Sofa, projector, anime, potato chips, soda.

He had only been away from home for half a day, but he missed it terribly.